Forestal Mininco is the forestry branch of wood product and woodpulp company CMPC. According to CMPC "Forestal Mininco territorially manages the forest heritage of CMPC in Chile."[1]

Forestal Mininco S.A.
Founded1947
ParentCMPC
SubsidiariesBosques del Plata
Websiteforestalmininco.cl

In the last decades Forestal Mininco have had a conflict, at times physically violent, with the indigenous Mapuche communities of Temucuicui, leading to the detention and imprisonment of community members in the prisons of Angol and Cañete.[2] Within the context of the Mapuche conflict Forestal Mininco has been accused by Mapuche organization Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco to work with gun-armed contractors.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Harmoniously developing forestry practices". cmpcmaderas.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  2. ^ Rodríguez, Sergio (December 8, 2013). "Temucuicui, la comunidad que vive en alerta". La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved April 16, 2017.
  3. ^ Nahuelpán, Héctor; Martínez, Edgars; Hofflinger, Alvaro; Millalén, Pablo (2021-08-19). "In Wallmapu, Colonialism and Capitalism Realign". NACLA Report on the Americas (3). Routledge. doi:10.1080/10714839.2021.1961469.